Then your other senses must be getting worse because of the trauma of blindness.

GLOUCESTER

So may it be indeed.

Methinks thy voice is altered, and thou speak’st

In better phrase and matter than thou didst.

GLOUCESTER

It may be so. It seems to me that your voice has changed, and that your speech is more elegant than it used to be.

10

EDGAR

You’re much deceived. In nothing am I changed

But in my garments.

EDGAR

You’re mistaken about all that. The only thing different about me is my clothes.

GLOUCESTER

Methinks you’re better spoken.

GLOUCESTER

I think you’re more articulate.

15

EDGAR

Come on, sir. Here’s the place. Stand still. How fearful

And dizzy ’tis to cast one’s eyes so low!

The crows and choughs that wing the midway air

Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down

Hangs one that gathers samphire—dreadful trade!

Methinks he seems no bigger than his head.

The fishermen that walk upon the beach

Appear like mice. And yon tall anchoring bark,

EDGAR

Come on, sir. This is the place. Stand still. It’s so scary to look down! It makes me dizzy. The crows flying down below look as small as ants. Halfway down the cliff there’s somebody clinging to the rock and gathering wild herbs—a risky business! He looks like a dot to me. The fishermen walking along the beach are as small as mice. That big ship over there looks no bigger